I was in my 20's when this came out in 84-85. The was especially amazing back then with vertually no computers to speak of in that time. It speaks to how well this was made to still be able to wow people today.
Yeah this was so far ahead of its time in 1984. I saw it on heavy rotation on MTV and this is early years in music videos... the time between 1982 and about.... 1989 were so fun because they put a lot of time and energy into this new format and the videos, a lot of them, were mini stories. I loved this time in life.
I could e wrong, but they either won a Grammy for this video for video production or an MTV Award. Apparently the story, he is a racer, see her through the graphic novel, falls in lover with her, pulls here in. The guys are the other racers and they are mad at him for winning and attaching him. He breaks out of the comic in the end and unite with her. Awesome graphics and I loved this when I was in high school. Was there and saw it on MTV when it first aired.
The original upload has even over one billion views! They aren't a one hit wonder at all! They have great other stuff like Hunting high and low, The sun always shines on TV, Manhattan Skyline, The living daylights, Stay on these roads, Foot of the mountain, Velvet and Lifelines. Saw them live twice. Morten Harket can hit the high notes live. He even hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996...
You can NEVER hear this song too much, and the video makes it so much better, plus i think we all fell in love with the lead singer after watching this💗💗😎😎
The two men that were chasing the lead singer and the girl were from the race in the beginning. You didn't notice the waitress crumpling the comic book. That's when the storyline was crossed over because the comic book was crumpled and their worlds collided. This song and music video was released in late 85.
This video is one of the best videos EVER!!! And the song is TIMELESS!!! A real masterpiece!!! And A-ha have a lot of excellent songs, you got to react to "The sun always shines on tv", "I've been loosing you", "Cry wolf", "Traing on thought", "Manhattan skyline"... And today they are still great...
This album was DIVINE!!!! Everything that was awesome about 80’s. There’s an acoustic version of this they recorded recently that proves they’ve still got it!!!
5.2 million views cannot be accurate....this video is LEGENF**KINGDARY!!! and its beloved all over the world. the amount of plays and rotation on MTV & VH1 over the years ..the viewership has to be tens of millions and you certainly don't see this creativity in today's videos
A-ha! LOVE IT! You did it again. You picked one of my absolute favourites. And, of course, being a native Norwegian, what can I say? A-ha ... they made history. You can't imagine how big they were back in 1985, how big they still are, how big they will always be, in Norway. They put Norway on the music map. And they continued releasing albums up until 2009. Some other really good songs by them: "The Weight of the Wind", "I've Been Losing You", The Sun Always Shines on TV", "Hunting High and Low" ...
You should also check out the youtube documentary on this song on a-ha's official youtube channel, there is a lot of interesting facts about how this song (and the group) came about!
I was 9 years old when I fell in love with this song and with A-ha. Since that moment their music has been part of my live even now. Greetings from Spain
You shouldn't be surprised that the video and music were so good. 80's is the peak of music and music videos... when MTV actually plays... music videos.... there were so many innovative music videos and concepts that goes along with the great music. You don't see that very much anymore, except for artists who are trying to recapture the same thing, like say, the Weekend....
Yes this one was smash hit in the 80's, everybody loved it and it was very innovative at the time. A-Ha got very famous after this and has so many hits. I love this band, very talented and good looking. Thanks for the reaction.
This video is actually from 1985, and has reached over 1bn views on TH-cam. They released a different version of the song with a low budget video in late 1984, but it wasn't a hit. I saw them live last year and Morten Harket can still hit the high notes. You also need to check out a song from 2000 called Summer Moved On if you want to hear what his voice is capable of.doing.
Like their living daylights track from the JB movie, Manhattan skyline, Hunting High and Low, Scoundrel days, The Swing of things, I've been losing you...
We see the end of their story in the beginning on the clip "The Sun Always Shines On Tv". I also loves the clip "Hunting Highd And Low" of a-ha, so beautiful
"Touchy!" Is also another good and fun song with great vocals from Morten Harcket. "Manhattan Skyline" is also such a great video with interesting and surprising music
The guys with wrenches that attacked them ... you have to go back to the beginning of the video he's in a race with these guys and he beats them and they get really mad about it
I love watching these reactions and I'm always tickled when the younger viewers note that "this is amazing for a video made in the 1980's." Well, to be fair, this kind of mix of animation and "real life" photography was old even then. Ever see Disney's "Mary Poppins"? THAT film was made in 1964 and the artists at Disney presented Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews dancing and interacting with animated characters in several scenes. Now I admit Take on Me employed the most up to date computer technology to mix the rotoscoped sketch animation with the live actors when it was made but it was an accomplished concept LONG before Take on Me was released as a video. But....it was also VERY skillfully crafted, the sketches lend a sense of motion and suspense that is tangible and it works so well with the story being told! I'm really glad you liked it. The 80's was a very special time for music and those of us who lived through it are happy to see a younger generation discovering and enjoying the same things we did way...WAY back "in the day." Cheers!
Just one of my fave bands ever. They are still going strong, live they are impeccable, Morten can still get those high notes. Check out the MTV unplugged session they did a few years back just to see the sheer talent of him, Pål and Mags. So many great songs, check out “Stay on these roads” , “The Swing of things” “Train of thought”, “The sun always shines on TV”.......jeez there’s just too many, fantastic band
Morten Harket has one of the best singing voices. Morten has an exceptional voice with quite an impressive range, a very expressive way of singing and can use his voice in many different ways. His voice reaches 5 octaves.
Thanks for reacting... as a young girl I dreamed of being drawn into the comic book. The guys who are following lost the race at the beginning of the video. The follow up is The sun always shines on tv. Cheers Suzette 🤘 💟 🇳🇱
5 million views? has well over a billion. these were world famous for years. they did this song unplugged a while ago, slower, but still has an amazing voice.
Love this reaction! It actually has just past 1 billion views on the official video! Which is amazing but really deserved. When i was a teenager we looked at magazines like "jackie" and they were cartoon love stories so this is where the inspiration came from. Morten Harket also holds the world record for the longest note in " Summer moved on" i have seen them live many times and he always hits the notes and keeps the note so long any other human woukd have past out! Big fan love it!
Morten spotted the word aha in one of Påls notebooks, he had planned to use it as a title for a song. The idiom "aha" was common in many languages, and they wanted a band name that was a common word in Norwegian, but also in other languages. As mentioned in another comment, they added the dash after another band with the name Aha! challenged their use of aha as band name. Fun part - the other band changed their name after a concert in Stockholm, where a whole lot of screaming young girls were waiting in front of the concert hall when they arrived. Those girls were probably disappointed when an adult, Norwegian blues band appeared instead of their beloved idols.
@@HighFashionQueen Dersom du ikke har fått med deg Matt Snider, så burde du søke opp kanalen. Han reagerer på hele katalogen. Han begynte med Take on me for et par-tre uker siden, og er nå i gang med fjerde album. Veldig moro at det er en som tar for seg hele katalogen.
Great reaction to a great song. They are not one-hit wonders and had a string of really successful singles (at least here in the UK). Loads of synth heavy tracks that you'll love I think (particularly around the same period as this). Next one of theirs you should listen to is 'The Sun Always Shines on TV' as the video leads directly on from this one.
True. They weren't one-hit wonders, but I don't think they ever topped this song with anything else they released. I quite liked "Touchy" though. It was a good single, but it was pure fluff, of course.
@@SpaceCattttt Well chart-wise, 'The Sun Always Shines..' did better than this one in the UK and got to No.1 (this only managed to get to No.2) but I would totally agree that Take On Me is probably the better song and is more well known. Loved a bit of 'Touchy' too!
A-ha' songs worth checking out: Blue Sky Living A Boy's Adventure Tale The Sun Always Shines On TV Hunting High & Low I Dream Myself Alive Here I Stand And Face The Rain Scoundrel Days Manhattan Skyline The Swing Of Things I've Been Losing You The Living Daylights Sycamore Leaves Slender Frame Early Morning I Call Your Name Move To Memphis Cold As Stone Summer Moved On Velvet I Wish I Cared Forever Not Yours Did Anyone Approach You Oranges On Appletrees Cannot Hide Celice Case Closed On Silver Shore The Bandstand Shadowside Foot Of The Mountain Under The Makeup Forrest Fire The Wake Sox Of The Fox
Great reaction my man. Yes, the video was groundbreaking at the time. I remember it was actually shown in the news at telly in Denmark. 'The sun always shines on tv' would be a good follow up to this, one of my 80ties faves. And by the way, the guys with the wrenches were in the race at the beginning of the video. They lost to Morten and felt vindictive.
Going through your reaction videos and I appreciate your sending time on music of my generation. I had to say, that when you mention that this video got 5.4 million views, remember that this number is just a small fraction of the true number of views that MTV gave to all of the videos of the 80's and 90's.
We were all in love with Morten at our girl's school. Just beautiful vocally musically & visually. More A- Ha definitely available. Xx Sj from the UK. 💕
Great video to react to! I still love this video after all these years...how they go back and forth between reality and the cartoon world. Still very cool...💜
during a 1985 award show, they sang "take on me" Live. Kenny Rogers was the host. When they were finished, Kenny Rogers said "god, that hurt my throat just listening to him". The album is great. 1 or 2 more videos like take on me. There are a lot of videos on youtube where he is singing live. For many years, he has been able to hit those high notes. Wow, super hot guy with a great voice He really made my blood boil. Damn. :-)
The fact that you are able to get what happens in the video at the same time as you hear what happens in the song, is what gets you a like from me. Great reaction video!
Rotoscoping was cutting edge back then. This was the technique used to rotate around the frame to move the characters from pencil drawings to live colour imaging. When this video was made it was the most expensive pop video made up to that point in time. If you want amazing falsetto, check out Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees
This video was so innovative when it came out in Fall of 85. Besides that amazing vocal in the chorus, notice what the bass drum is doing. It does 8 bars of driving 4/4 kicks as the voice is climbing, then drops out to a sort of "heartbeat" for 4 bars (at "I'll be gone..."). It creates a sort of floaty feeling, then comes back with the 4 to floor for the last phrase as the voice rises to the high note.
I was absolutely obsessed with Aha at this time for several years. Their first two albums are great, Morten was my first celeb crush! 😂 This was a ground breaking video at the time and I think it still holds up pretty well today. The Sun Always Shines on TV was also a massive hit. They also did the theme song for the Bond movie The Living Daylights. They’ve had a few spells of hiatus but are still making music. Thanks for the reaction!
After watching 3 other reaction videos, I like yours best because you talk more about the comic book / sketch / live action aspect of the video, while the others do comment on the incredible music and range but don't seem to be watching the wink and the hand luring her in. And, it's still not obvious if she ever paid, even when she arrived back in the diner where the book was last left, in the trash can. He has other songs, but this is THE AHA song. It was my favorite song of 1985 and the 1980's
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I saw this video 1985 on MTV and since there I am a big fan of a-ha. Saw them last year and 2016 unforgettable concert.
This was the start of a life long love for a-ha and Morten's voice. The soundtrack of my youth and life.
I Was Born In 1980. All i can say Mom Thank You! For Having Me In The Golden Years Of The 80s. I am 42 years old in 2022!! Loving my 80s!!!!!🥳🥳👏👏👏❤❤❤
Yes, still one of the greatest videos in history. We watched it thousands of times on MTV, and it is still out of this world.
Warms the heart and u just can’t stop smiling kinda song🥰😍
My daughters 14 year old crush. Totally dazed when she came out of their first concert.
So clever this song & video will never age it makes you have to watch it brilliant Aha ...
I was in my 20's when this came out in 84-85. The was especially amazing back then with vertually no computers to speak of in that time. It speaks to how well this was made to still be able to wow people today.
Yeah this was so far ahead of its time in 1984. I saw it on heavy rotation on MTV and this is early years in music videos... the time between 1982 and about.... 1989 were so fun because they put a lot of time and energy into this new format and the videos, a lot of them, were mini stories. I loved this time in life.
I could e wrong, but they either won a Grammy for this video for video production or an MTV Award. Apparently the story, he is a racer, see her through the graphic novel, falls in lover with her, pulls here in. The guys are the other racers and they are mad at him for winning and attaching him. He breaks out of the comic in the end and unite with her. Awesome graphics and I loved this when I was in high school. Was there and saw it on MTV when it first aired.
Not sure are Grammy for video, but at time was amazing video (still is) but was graphic forward then
The original upload has even over one billion views! They aren't a one hit wonder at all! They have great other stuff like Hunting high and low, The sun always shines on TV, Manhattan Skyline, The living daylights, Stay on these roads, Foot of the mountain, Velvet and Lifelines. Saw them live twice. Morten Harket can hit the high notes live. He even hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996...
Pretty sure this reaction channel is based in the US, therefore A-ha would be a one hit wonder on the US charts.
I've Been Losing You is my favourite from A-Ha
The Sun Always Shines on TV hit top 20 in the US but for some reason people forget that...
Oh man I'm so jealous you were able to see them live! I'm sure they were amazing!!!
@@joannaflowers5563 saw them two times and Morten Harket solo at the Night of the proms. Every time was amazing
Top 5 from 80's for sure.
You can NEVER hear this song too much, and the video makes it so much better, plus i think we all fell in love with the lead singer after watching this💗💗😎😎
The two men that were chasing the lead singer and the girl were from the race in the beginning. You didn't notice the waitress crumpling the comic book. That's when the storyline was crossed over because the comic book was crumpled and their worlds collided. This song and music video was released in late 85.
The Sun Always Shines on TV! Hunting High and Low!
Yes! Both of these!
Great a-ha songs from the 1980s
"The Sun Always Shines on TV" musical video is the sequel of "Take on me".
HUNTING HIGH and LOW 💖
Also "stay on these roads" and "lifelines".
This song represents the 80's to me.
The song and video are untouchable
This is an iconic moment in history
This remains the best video ever!!!!
This video is one of the best videos EVER!!! And the song is TIMELESS!!! A real masterpiece!!! And A-ha have a lot of excellent songs, you got to react to "The sun always shines on tv", "I've been loosing you", "Cry wolf", "Traing on thought", "Manhattan skyline"... And today they are still great...
This album was DIVINE!!!! Everything that was awesome about 80’s. There’s an acoustic version of this they recorded recently that proves they’ve still got it!!!
5.2 million views cannot be accurate....this video is LEGENF**KINGDARY!!! and its beloved all over the world. the amount of plays and rotation on MTV & VH1 over the years ..the viewership has to be tens of millions and you certainly don't see this creativity in today's videos
I'm so glad that i was born in 1980 and hear all those great musicians. Best era for music.
Hunting High And Low is another great video by A-ha.
A-ha! LOVE IT! You did it again. You picked one of my absolute favourites. And, of course, being a native Norwegian, what can I say? A-ha ... they made history. You can't imagine how big they were back in 1985, how big they still are, how big they will always be, in Norway. They put Norway on the music map. And they continued releasing albums up until 2009. Some other really good songs by them: "The Weight of the Wind", "I've Been Losing You", The Sun Always Shines on TV", "Hunting High and Low" ...
Always loved this video!!!! Still holds up after all these years☺️
You should also check out the youtube documentary on this song on a-ha's official youtube channel, there is a lot of interesting facts about how this song (and the group) came about!
Awardwinning musicvideo, the 4K version has over a billion views.
Please do Aha The Sun Always Shines On TV. It’s the follow up to this and whilst the video isn’t as impressive the song is absolutely amazing 😆
I was 9 years old when I fell in love with this song and with A-ha. Since that moment their music has been part of my live even now. Greetings from Spain
1.6 billion views may 2023
Escuchando A~Ha desde el 87'.👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻
You shouldn't be surprised that the video and music were so good. 80's is the peak of music and music videos... when MTV actually plays... music videos.... there were so many innovative music videos and concepts that goes along with the great music. You don't see that very much anymore, except for artists who are trying to recapture the same thing, like say, the Weekend....
Yes this one was smash hit in the 80's, everybody loved it and it was very innovative at the time. A-Ha got very famous after this and has so many hits. I love this band, very talented and good looking. Thanks for the reaction.
Over 1 billion views now.
Now in 2022, it has seen over 1 billion views. She's in another video. Morten can hit 5 octaves.
This video is actually from 1985, and has reached over 1bn views on TH-cam. They released a different version of the song with a low budget video in late 1984, but it wasn't a hit. I saw them live last year and Morten Harket can still hit the high notes. You also need to check out a song from 2000 called Summer Moved On if you want to hear what his voice is capable of.doing.
Like their living daylights track from the JB movie, Manhattan skyline, Hunting High and Low, Scoundrel days, The Swing of things, I've been losing you...
We see the end of their story in the beginning on the clip "The Sun Always Shines On Tv". I also loves the clip "Hunting Highd And Low" of a-ha, so beautiful
"Touchy!" Is also another good and fun song with great vocals from Morten Harcket. "Manhattan Skyline" is also such a great video with interesting and surprising music
You must see the unplugged version. AMAZING!!!
He holds the Guiness world record for the longest held note sung in a song... Live no less.
This is a one of a kind song. What a classic! Great choice.
“You’re all the things I’ve got to remember.”
Love this line.
The guys with wrenches that attacked them ... you have to go back to the beginning of the video he's in a race with these guys and he beats them and they get really mad about it
also their hats have 13 on them..file 13 = trash
Plus the waitress screwed up the magazine, so forcing the angry bikers into the action. Bunty smoothed the pages out again.
This song and its video are in my top 10 of all times and it's been my ring tone for over 7 years.
I love watching your reaction to this. I never get tired of watching and hearing this. They were my favourite growing up. Love them still.
5.3 million views!
Actually closer to 2 billion
I love watching these reactions and I'm always tickled when the younger viewers note that "this is amazing for a video made in the 1980's." Well, to be fair, this kind of mix of animation and "real life" photography was old even then. Ever see Disney's "Mary Poppins"? THAT film was made in 1964 and the artists at Disney presented Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews dancing and interacting with animated characters in several scenes. Now I admit Take on Me employed the most up to date computer technology to mix the rotoscoped sketch animation with the live actors when it was made but it was an accomplished concept LONG before Take on Me was released as a video. But....it was also VERY skillfully crafted, the sketches lend a sense of motion and suspense that is tangible and it works so well with the story being told! I'm really glad you liked it. The 80's was a very special time for music and those of us who lived through it are happy to see a younger generation discovering and enjoying the same things we did way...WAY back "in the day." Cheers!
If you want to hear more of his voice check out "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
I was 13 years old when this came out and I can’t hear the song without seeing the video as well. Timeless pop art
Hunting high and low. ❤
"take on me" is for me in the top 5 of the best contemporary songs ever composed❤🇧🇪
One of the best videos in history. It's absolutely timeless and my favourite. Coming from an 80s baby.
The Living Daylights (for the James Bond 007 movie of the same name)
Hunting High And Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
More greatness from A-Ha.
Hunting High & Low has AMAZING vocals!
One of the most emblematic titles of the 80's, and the video a masterpiece👌👌
Just one of my fave bands ever. They are still going strong, live they are impeccable, Morten can still get those high notes. Check out the MTV unplugged session they did a few years back just to see the sheer talent of him, Pål and Mags. So many great songs, check out “Stay on these roads” , “The Swing of things” “Train of thought”, “The sun always shines on TV”.......jeez there’s just too many, fantastic band
It was and will always be one of the best music videos of all time!
Morten Harket has one of the best singing voices. Morten has an exceptional voice with quite an impressive range, a very expressive way of singing and can use his voice in many different ways. His voice reaches 5 octaves.
It was also featured on an episode of American Bandstand’s Rate-a-Record segment back in the 80s Great song!!!!
I'm so glad you got to see this! This song/video was/is one of my top ten favorites of the 80s!
Hands down one of the best bands of the 80s.
Thanks for reacting... as a young girl I dreamed of being drawn into the comic book. The guys who are following lost the race at the beginning of the video. The follow up is The sun always shines on tv. Cheers Suzette 🤘 💟 🇳🇱
The ultimate 80s track! Another video of theirs 'Train of Thought' has similar visuals, very creative
5 million views? has well over a billion. these were world famous for years. they did this song unplugged a while ago, slower, but still has an amazing voice.
Could quite possibly be the best combination of song and video quality ever!
Love this reaction! It actually has just past 1 billion views on the official video! Which is amazing but really deserved. When i was a teenager we looked at magazines like "jackie" and they were cartoon love stories so this is where the inspiration came from. Morten Harket also holds the world record for the longest note in " Summer moved on" i have seen them live many times and he always hits the notes and keeps the note so long any other human woukd have past out! Big fan love it!
I was almost a teenager at this period and I remember the singer was in my dreams. He was so handsome. It was like in this video. Like a fantasme. ;)
The comic book world became broken and dangerous when the waitress crumpled it and threw it away.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
My A-ha favourites: The Swing of Things, Out of Blue Comes Green, Manhattan Skyline
Morten spotted the word aha in one of Påls notebooks, he had planned to use it as a title for a song. The idiom "aha" was common in many languages, and they wanted a band name that was a common word in Norwegian, but also in other languages. As mentioned in another comment, they added the dash after another band with the name Aha! challenged their use of aha as band name. Fun part - the other band changed their name after a concert in Stockholm, where a whole lot of screaming young girls were waiting in front of the concert hall when they arrived. Those girls were probably disappointed when an adult, Norwegian blues band appeared instead of their beloved idols.
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@@HighFashionQueen Dersom du ikke har fått med deg Matt Snider, så burde du søke opp kanalen. Han reagerer på hele katalogen. Han begynte med Take on me for et par-tre uker siden, og er nå i gang med fjerde album. Veldig moro at det er en som tar for seg hele katalogen.
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Great reaction to a great song. They are not one-hit wonders and had a string of really successful singles (at least here in the UK). Loads of synth heavy tracks that you'll love I think (particularly around the same period as this). Next one of theirs you should listen to is 'The Sun Always Shines on TV' as the video leads directly on from this one.
True. They weren't one-hit wonders, but I don't think they ever topped this song with anything else they released. I quite liked "Touchy" though. It was a good single,
but it was pure fluff, of course.
@@SpaceCattttt Well chart-wise, 'The Sun Always Shines..' did better than this one in the UK and got to No.1 (this only managed to get to No.2) but I would totally agree that Take On Me is probably the better song and is more well known. Loved a bit of 'Touchy' too!
@@RichSouthend But don't you guys consider acts to be a one hit wonder in the UK even though they had more top ten hits in the US?
@@tonyhogg9839 Europeans aren't blind for what happens in America.
That video is an all time classic. Way ahead of it's time. Great music. Great vocals. and hot damn is Morten Harket cute or what?
A-ha' songs worth checking out:
Blue Sky
Living A Boy's Adventure Tale
The Sun Always Shines On TV
Hunting High & Low
I Dream Myself Alive
Here I Stand And Face The Rain
Scoundrel Days
Manhattan Skyline
The Swing Of Things
I've Been Losing You
The Living Daylights
Sycamore Leaves
Slender Frame
Early Morning
I Call Your Name
Move To Memphis
Cold As Stone
Summer Moved On
Velvet
I Wish I Cared
Forever Not Yours
Did Anyone Approach You
Oranges On Appletrees
Cannot Hide
Celice
Case Closed On Silver Shore
The Bandstand
Shadowside
Foot Of The Mountain
Under The Makeup
Forrest Fire
The Wake
Sox Of The Fox
I think this is one of the best videoclip of all time! Thanks for that Dereck
Great reaction my man. Yes, the video was groundbreaking at the time. I remember it was actually shown in the news at telly in Denmark. 'The sun always shines on tv' would be a good follow up to this, one of my 80ties faves.
And by the way, the guys with the wrenches were in the race at the beginning of the video. They lost to Morten and felt vindictive.
Going through your reaction videos and I appreciate your sending time on music of my generation. I had to say, that when you mention that this video got 5.4 million views, remember that this number is just a small fraction of the true number of views that MTV gave to all of the videos of the 80's and 90's.
I’m sure someone has mentioned this but “Take on Me”was voted as the best music video of all time.
Hello Dereck ! Next time you can react to "The sun always shines on TV" which begins where this video ends. ;)
We were all in love with Morten at our girl's school. Just beautiful vocally musically & visually. More A- Ha definitely available. Xx Sj from the UK. 💕
Hunting high and low is my definitely preferred song forever of all the songs in the world.
Great video to react to! I still love this video after all these years...how they go back and forth between reality and the cartoon world. Still very cool...💜
during a 1985 award show, they sang "take on me" Live. Kenny Rogers was the host. When they were finished, Kenny Rogers said "god, that hurt my throat just listening to him". The album is great. 1 or 2 more videos like take on me. There are a lot of videos on youtube where he is singing live. For many years, he has been able to hit those high notes. Wow, super hot guy with a great voice He really made my blood boil. Damn. :-)
This was ahead of its time when it came out. Everyone knew this song and video.
I remember when this came out, I was in high school, talk about taking me back wow.
Has all the optimism and energy of the 80s... along with other Swedish songs such as " all that she wants is another baby" etc
The fact that you are able to get what happens in the video at the same time as you hear what happens in the song, is what gets you a like from me. Great reaction video!
Rotoscoping was cutting edge back then. This was the technique used to rotate around the frame to move the characters from pencil drawings to live colour imaging.
When this video was made it was the most expensive pop video made up to that point in time.
If you want amazing falsetto, check out Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees
Another fantastic song
This video was so innovative when it came out in Fall of 85. Besides that amazing vocal in the chorus, notice what the bass drum is doing. It does 8 bars of driving 4/4 kicks as the voice is climbing, then drops out to a sort of "heartbeat" for 4 bars (at "I'll be gone..."). It creates a sort of floaty feeling, then comes back with the 4 to floor for the last phrase as the voice rises to the high note.
Bunty Bailey was a English model actress who was born in the 60's she is 56 years old now
Since 1984 all versions of this video have amassed over 1.7 BILLION views
Please, react to Scoundrel Days. It’s a “dark” synth pop song. Strong vocals
luizgomesrn Their best! A masterpiece.
I love this song (over 1 billion view btw) but I also loved their Unplugged version (used in Deadpool 2) - the slow version works as well!
80’s in all It’s style! A-ha and Duran Duran were my favorites. 💫
I was absolutely obsessed with Aha at this time for several years. Their first two albums are great, Morten was my first celeb crush! 😂 This was a ground breaking video at the time and I think it still holds up pretty well today. The Sun Always Shines on TV was also a massive hit. They also did the theme song for the Bond movie The Living Daylights. They’ve had a few spells of hiatus but are still making music. Thanks for the reaction!
After watching 3 other reaction videos, I like yours best because you talk more about the comic book / sketch / live action aspect of the video, while the others do comment on the incredible music and range but don't seem to be watching the wink and the hand luring her in. And, it's still not obvious if she ever paid, even when she arrived back in the diner where the book was last left, in the trash can. He has other songs, but this is THE AHA song. It was my favorite song of 1985 and the 1980's
Awesome reaction mate. Please react to “Stay On These Roads” by A-HA
One of my favourite songs of all time ♥️